Henri Dunant

(18281910). Swiss humanitarian and author Henri Dunant founded the Red Cross (now the Red Cross and Red Crescent), an international agency that aids in the prevention and relief of human suffering. He was a cowinnerwith French economist Frédéric Passyof the first Nobel prize for peace in 1901. (See alsoPassy, Frédéric; Red Cross and Red Crescent; Nobel prizes.)

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